Leonard Mustazza, ed.. The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. xxxiii + 346 pp. $59.95, cloth, ISBN 978-0-313-28634-6. Reviewed by S. Kirk Bane Published on H-PCAACA (June, 1995) Leonard Mustazza, Director of Academic Af‐ the book. Vonnegut students will applaud the pub‐ fairs and Professor of English and American Stud‐ lication of this excellent volume. ies at Pennsylvania State University-Ogontz Cam‐ Copyright (c) 1995 by H-Net and PCAACA, all pus, and author of Forever Pursuing Genesis: The rights reserved. This work may be copied for non- Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, has profit educational use if proper credit is given to done a commendable job compiling and editing the author and the list. For other permission, the various critical reactions to the renowned please contact [email protected]. novelist's works. This study, part of a Critical Re‐ sponses in Arts and Letters Series, contains forty reviews by such critics as Doris Lessing, Stanley Schatt Terry Southern, Jerome Klinkowitz, Granville Hicks, Robert Merrill, Kathryn Hume, Lawrence R. Broer, and Jay McInerney. The vol‐ ume includes reviews of Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, Bluebeard, and Hocus Pocus. The text is divided into two parts: The Road to Critical Success, 1952-1969 and The Critical Main‐ stream, 1970-1993. Mustazza has written a fne in‐ troduction to complement his collection of re‐ views; a helpful Selected Bibliography rounds out H-Net Reviews If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at https://networks.h-net.org/h-pcaaca Citation: S. Kirk Bane. Review of Mustazza, Leonard, ed. The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut. H- PCAACA, H-Net Reviews. June, 1995. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=73 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2.